[R] Querying the path separator?

[Henrik Bengtsson]

See file.path().

/Henrik

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Jonathan Greenberg
<greenberg at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> Hopefully this is a pretty easy fix -- I need to have R query the path
> separator for some code I'm trying to write (it involves using a
> system() call) -- the call requires a path and a wildcard, e.g.:
>
> command="mycommand /path/to/*.files" in the case of unix or,
> command="mycommand.exe C:\\path\\to\\*.files" on a windows box
>
> System.which is working correctly, so the "mycommand" vs
> "mycommand.exe" part is working fine.  The issue is that the /path/to
> should be set to getwd(), but this strips the trailing path separator.
>  How do I go about querying the correct path separator for the system,
> so I can include it in a paste command (via sep=)?  Thanks!
>
> --j
>
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